Night and Day

These days, many romantic poems, movies and books tell tales of one person loving another in which those feelings are not returned. We often see ourselves within the characters of these stories, which is what makes them so appealing. In our current era, unrequited love is still a greatly utilised theme in many books, such as “Dear John.” Nicholas Sparks writes, “I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how…

bright colors and visible, distinctive brushstrokes” (Adams 789), with this in mind, the oil painting Starry Night was born. Stemming from this period was the emotional development, which was influenced by the late century Symbolist movement and Impressionist styles. Van Gogh endure many a griefs during his lifetime. The first stage of his grief penetrated the surface of his life was on the same day the brother Vincent died.…

landscape to make someone feel happy. My thoughts of a landscape are similar to van Gogh’s because he has buildings, houses and rolling hills in his landscape. My thoughts differ because his landscape is dark and also at night where as I picture a landscape being during the day or at sunset. Also, in his landscape I can’t tell if there is any grass which leaves me thinking if there was grass or not. When I think of a town without grass I think of a desert and a dry environment. After reading the…

absorbed by him. If perchance she did outlive her husband, her respect would die with him while also granting her brief financial freedom, however subjecting her to social rejection. This societal development was linked to scientific fact of Shakespeare’s day which said that biologically, women were failed men. The idea that women were, by nature, inferior barred women from nearly all social privileges. This division of the sexes can be explored in Shakespeare’s Twelfth…

Attaining independence through opposing gender roles in the 1600-1800 In the play Twelfth Night and the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen female and male characters experience a phenomenon that had rarely been seen before in this time period. Gender roles had been an important part of history since the beginning of time and seemed to be respected and followed by citizen of all kind in England during the 1600-1800. Society had expectations for women and men and how they were expected to…

Vincent van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter who is considered to be one of the greatest Dutch painters to ever live. One thing van Gogh is known for is the emotion in his work. I chose to write this paper about van Gogh due to this. In Starry Night, van Gogh communicates his feelings of coldness and darkness in his life. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. He was the child of Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Theodorus was an austere country…

neighborhood. Being able to look at a beautiful sky day and night. Small towns are way better and safer than big towns. Small towns are quieter, have less crime and have clearer and prettier skies. Small towns are better than big cities because there is less noise. In big towns it is often hard to fall asleep because of the terrible noise outside. In the poem “Big City Noise” it states “People do not seem to hear the noise during the day. But at night, the noise makes it hard to sleep.”…

Lights Twas the night of Halloween when all of a sudden, the electricity in the entire town of Bridgman went off. Cars zooming, loud noises echoing, the town was in a cluster. Everyone hiding in their homes or driving to be with family and friends. By midnight, not a single person could be seen, everybody hidden away. All except one girl who couldn’t fall asleep due to nervous butterflies in her stomach, for tomorrow was her wedding day. The plans were in place, the tux was tailored, and the…

Love is an unyielding force that eventually humbles us all. In his comedies, William Shakespeare attempts to define this elusive entity in the play Twelfth Night . The Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy about a girl named Viola who has to disguise herself as a man for protection after a shipwreck where she thought she lost her brother. As the play continues Viola develops feelings for the man she works for Orsino although he is a lovesick fool for Olivia who doesn’t want a relationship because…

William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night and the film Shakespeare in Love deal with the complexities of gender and sexuality. Even though the play Twelfth Night was published nearly four hundred years before Shakespeare in Love was released, Shakespeare’s play represents a more modern outlook on gender. Both materials involve cross-dressing, but cross-dressing is more of a feature in Shakespeare in Love, while Twelfth Night actually delves into the complexities of what it means to be either male…